After a couple of incidents in the first few days, the crew finally got back on track.
Zhao Lei took over as the production director, and he didn't start off like Tang An.
After obtaining Tang An's approval, they were allowed to get their due share.
Tang An is not a stingy person, so he treats the little money as a bonus for them. As long as nothing goes wrong later, everything will be fine.
Everything was settled peacefully. Each department rechecked the bill and finally summarized it to Xu Ruoyun.
Those producers didn't dare to complain. After all, this was against the rules. After all, they went too far. Thank God Tang An didn't pursue it further!
The crew stabilized, and Xu Jinglei returned to the crew after finishing the promotion of "Letter from a Strange Woman".
The film finally grossed 1.2 million at the box office on its first day, which was only 100,000 less than the first-day box office of "Shark Tank".
In the three days of its first weekend, "Letter from a Strange Woman" grossed 4.6 million at the box office, undoubtedly ranking first at the weekly box office.
However, the audience for this type of movie is indeed not good. It immediately dropped to 800,000 on Monday, and its potential was exhausted within half a month of its release. In the end, the box office exceeded the 10 million mark.
Xu Jinglei also became a millionaire director!
At this time, the threshold for the 100 million yuan club is still very high. Even 10 people cannot join it. There are definitely not many directors who have directed films with a box office of over 10 million yuan.
Neither Teng Huatao nor Lu Chuan, who were highly praised by the media before, had this achievement.
Naturally, Xu Jinglei has also become a leading figure among the new generation of directors, and her reputation is more famous than Tang An.
After all, they are more famous and have a wider reputation among movie fans.
In mid-March, Tang An received a notice from Han Sanping and docked at the estuary of Tianjing Haihe River. The cruise ship at Tianjing Port was already in place and the crew could go there for filming.
Time was limited, and the other party only gave one week for filming. Tang An immediately sent external producer Wang Zhenguo and art director Chen Jinhe to rush to Tianjing overnight with the set team.
Tang An then packed up the crew and boarded the bus to Tianjing.
Tang An, who was leaning on his seat and reading the storyboard, suddenly said, "Old Zhao!"
"Hey, Director Tang!" Zhao Lei, who was resting his mind after finishing the session, woke up immediately.
"How's the thing I asked you to do!"
"Director Tang, I have contacted China Film's advertising department at the base before coming here and are ready to print and produce posters at any time."
"The China Film Propaganda Department has also made preparations and started laying out posters in various cities across the country. It has also sent people to prepare a large number of soft articles according to your wishes!" Zhao Lei replied one by one.
"That's good. When the material is finished, remember to pass it on to them and get it done as soon as possible. Follow them more!"
After Tang An finished speaking, he leaned back in his seat and closed his eyes to rest.
The title of a movie is equivalent to a person's name.
Determines the audience's first impression of the film.
Just like a book, the title is the first thing readers see.
Therefore, the title of the book must at least fit the article. Think about the potential audience for your book and choose an attractive title.
For example, in "The School Beauty's Personal Personal Expert", the school beauty, personal body, will immediately make people think about it.
The titles of the books include ambiguous ones, literary ones, and easy-to-understand titles.
Of course, there are also some weird ones, such as "I'm a Toad".
This is the willfulness of a great god!
"Horror Cruise" is like a book title. The potential audience of the movie is horror film lovers. This title is enough to attract the attention of 90% of the audience.
The other one is the poster, which is equivalent to a person's face.
No matter what era, the first thing you see is your face. No matter how talented you are, you will inevitably be rejected by your ugly face.
Posters are the simplest and most effective way to promote a movie, at least in this era.
The original poster of "Terror Cruise" was pretty good, and Tang An doesn't plan to change it.
Take a break from filming to take out the posters and promote them first, so as not to let the popularity of the movie fade away.
At noon, the crew arrived at Tianjing Port, the port with the largest throughput in the Bohai Sea and even in northern China.
Looking ahead, ships of different tonnage are docked neatly at the port, and maintenance personnel are doing maintenance on the cruise ships.
The destination of their trip was an ocean cruise ship, and Wu Deming, deputy director of China Film Production Department, was waiting there, talking to the captain.
Tang An got out of the car and asked Zhao Lei to lead people to move the equipment down. He walked forward quickly and said, "Mr. Wu, could you please make a trip yourself!"
"Haha, I'm here to serve you crew. If you don't mind, Director Tang, let me introduce to you. Mr. Li is the captain of this cruise ship. If you have any questions in the future, you can ask him for advice!"
Wu Deming introduced.
"Hello, Mr. Li, I'm causing trouble for you!"
"It's no trouble. It's a dream to have a great director come to film with us!" Mr. Li laughed.
"Well, in order not to waste Mr. Li's time, I want to start shooting now. In the evening, when Mr. Li is in the spotlight, I'll treat you to a meal!" Tang An said with a smile.
"No problem, we will cooperate at any time!"
Then Tang An led people to find a suitable place to film the scene where they went out to sea. Some of the remaining people got on the cruise ship and drove to the edge of the port to get ready.
The crew is halfway through the filming process, and after more than half a month of working together, they have already cooperated very well.
The generator truck came over, set up lights, set up a temporary dressing room, and placed the crane camera, track camera, and monitors in the appropriate positions, and the adjustments were completed.
Half an hour later, everything was ready and shooting started.
"Scene 6, one shot, one shot!"
"start!"
Following Tang An's order, the filming team of dozens of people slowly started to move.
Lu Yi was preparing to go to sea on a yacht. The photographer moved from bottom to top, slowly moving up from the calm sea, and settled on a position parallel to Lu Yi.
Not far away from the shore, Deng Chao, Sun Li and Zhou Hong were walking towards the yacht, each holding a gift in their hands.
"Hi, Lao Zhou!"
Lu Yi stood up slowly, and the camera slowly moved up with him, following his gaze to the three people coming towards him.
"Click!"
"Lao Zhang, the camera is slowly zooming in, and No. 2 is filming Lu Yi from the opposite side!"
The photographer made a slight mistake. As the actors walked in, the camera should slowly zoom in. In the shot just now, it looked like the actors were always at the same distance.
Zhang Yiping looked back and realized his problem, so he raised his hand in embarrassment.
"Sorry, Director Tang!"
Tang An nodded and said nothing.
Shooting continues.
Today is their day to go out to sea. Tang Chao and Qiao Li are going to introduce a girlfriend to Zhou Yi, the character played by Zhou Hong.
However, when Lu Yi was about to say hello to Zhou Hong, Chen Mei, played by Xu Jinglei, walked away from the shore looking abnormal.
The first reincarnation at the beginning of the film is the "beginning" of everything.